Samsung to unveil Galaxy Nexus on October 19th

Samsung on Thursday sent out invitations to a press conference in Hong Kong where it is expected to unveil its Galaxy Nexus smartphone alongside Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The South Korea-based electronics giant has not made direct reference to the new smartphone, however a recent teaser video published by the vendor left little doubt that the third-generation Nexus smartphone would be the star of the show. Samsung was initially supposed to unveil the device at its Unpacked event during the CTIA Enterprise & Applications conference in San Diego, however the company canceled the event due to Apple co-Founder Steve Jobs’s untimely passing, which occurred just one week earlier. BGR has issued numerous exclusive reports regarding the Galaxy Nexus, the most recent of which painted a nearly complete picture of the phone’s key specs. Samsung’s event kicks off at 10:00 a.m. local time in Hong Kong, or 10:00 p.m. Eastern Time on October 18th.

Don’t want. You can put lipstick on a droid but it’s still a droid. I’m sick of poor app selection, lack of timely and current OS releases, and overall fragmentation.

http://twitter.com/GRZLA Grizzly Atoms

Norm you had a strong comeback today, don’t start slipping again.

Anonymous

I don’t even read norms posts any more. Total troll. One day he’s an andriod fan, next day is apple. He posts on everything. I think youre the last person that pays attention to him.

Anonymous

Then don’t use it… Simple…. IN the mean time ICE CREAM SAMMMMICH! WOOOOO!!

Palmful

Sammmywich you mean

Anonymous

Your last two points don’t apply here. This is a Nexus phone.

The first is a matter of opinion. I’ve been using Android for almost two years now. Never needed an app I couldn’t get.

Anonymous

I love your lipstick theory. The iPhone 3GS & 4S have taught you well. In the meantime, try not to sound so ignorant by placing fragmentation and Nexus in the same sentence. #getaclue #stopcrying

Dave

Learn how to use a hashtag idiot.

Anonymous

@085287177d831bebe86b4b1dd7e844fb:disqus
I dont have a Twitter. #canInotbecoollikeyou?

Anonymous

you can put android notifications on a ios device and call it an ios device..

Erk

you could jailbreak an iphone, pickup some malware on one of the lower end repo’s and call it an android.

http://twitter.com/RIP_KING Rifkizzle

Poor app selection? What exactly is it that you CAN’T find on android that is your killer iOS app. I just switched to android from iOS a couple of weeks ago and it has been an extremely pleasant experience and in many ways better than iOS.

Lack of timely releases? How long has it been since Apple released a new OS for iOS? They announced iOS5 like a half year before they actually got around to releasing it.

Guest

welcome to the family!!! let me ask you? does it feel much better on this team??

Ken

When I get my Nexus Prime early next month I am going to run out of the store holding it in the air with a big fat sh!t eating grin on my face. Just like all the stupid apple fags!
Just kidding I’ll be excited. But I won’t act like a jackass, like the apple fans.

steve jobs

it totally is a homo phone.

Clayton Jones

hahaha, the original comment plus jobs rebuttal made me chuckle.

Anonymous

Obviously you haven’t checked the Android Market in over a year… I’ve found every app that I could want from the Appstore available in the Market, and my Nexus S and Nexus One got updates very timely.

Guest

everything that has to do with android , i see you posting. whats up with that ?

Guest

@ScroatFan:disqus im glad you said something , i fell into his dumb shit quite a few times . good looking

http://twitter.com/GRZLA Grizzly Atoms

I am buying one, I still have an old Nexus One I use to browse the internet on the toilet. Finally a Nexus I can use on Verizon’s network.

Anonymous

Damn… WIsh I could’ve gotten the Nexus One… But he OG EVO replaced it… Can’t complain really… I still lust for that nexus though

http://twitter.com/GRZLA Grizzly Atoms

I have an EVO too, that bad boy sits on my coffee table. I can browse the internet on any room I walk into.

Anonymous

@twitter-133878082:disqus Um, anyone can do that… its called “pockets”.

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I want it too.

Anonymous

Hopefully it is open source. And hopefully they open the source IMMEDIATELY. The situation with Honeycomb is embarrassing and Google should be ashamed.

http://twitter.com/GRZLA Grizzly Atoms

Google withheld Honeycomb source because of Ice Cream Sandwich. It is the merging of Honeycomb and Gingerbread, which I am sure will be open sourced as soon as they commit the code to AOSP. Which means CM8 will be hitting devices in Alpha stage within a month of that happening.

Anonymous

This is like saying it would be OK for Linux to withhold the source code for the current Linux kernel because there’s a new kernel on the way with some big architectural changes.

In other words, it’s idiotic reasoning. It doesn’t make sense and it’s indefensible. You are either open source or you’re not. Google was already straining credulity with their hilarious definition of open source (developed completely in the dark with no community contributions whatsoever) and now it’s even worse.

They need to have the source ready on day one.

http://twitter.com/GRZLA Grizzly Atoms

I didn’t withhold the source, so I unsure why you are calling me an idiot. I will agree Google made a bad choice by not releasing it, but at the same time it makes sense. They knew ICS would merge Honeycomb and Gingerbread, so instead of releasing the source they kept it. This way people don’t start building from the source when something much larger is down the road.

Blame Google, not me dummy.

Anonymous

I was blaming Google. I was saying that Google’s reasoning was idiotic, not yours. Sorry for the confusion.

Their decision does not make sense. When your entire branding and support within the community is based on an already strained definition of “open” then you damn well better make sure that you remain open.

There would be no negative consequences whatsoever to releasing the source and having people start working on it if Google treated Android as an actual open source project. You know, like one where people are able to contribute to it and make improvements in real time the way that they can with literally every other open source project in the world.

Instead it’s this black box process that sidelined the entire open source community while Honeycomb, a closed source operating system, got to masquerade around as somehow being more open than iOS.

Android is a closed-source operating system right now. That’s an embarrassing joke that needs to fixed. The time for excuses (that never made sense in the first place) is over.

Erk

girls, girls. You’re both pretty.

Anonymous

CM9, actually. I don’t know why they’re skipping 8, but they are.

ras752000

Cm7=gingerbread, cm8=honeycomb, cm9=ICS
Since honeycomb wasnt open they skipped it

Anonymous

I can always count on seeing Grizzly Atoms on these Nexus Prime articles. You sir, are the voice of reason around here.

Louisnvrr

Google actually withheld the source code for Honeycomb because they didn’t want anyone to port it onto a phone. They themselves said that the Motorola Xoom was rushed out with several patches missing in the source code. Yeah Android is suppose to be open source and Google should have released the Honeycomb source code from the start but they withheld it for the safety of an Android phone being rooted and trying to use a Honeycomb Rom. Your phone would have been bricked on the spot

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_T3NRV5OOEQS5Y52QG6WG6SMTEU ML

Finally! Hello Galaxy Nexus!

fishkid13

That’s a mouthful, it should be the Nexus Prime. Has a ring to it.

Louisnvrr

It’s a Samsung Galaxy phone with stock Android. Why should it be called Nexus Prime? Nexus Prime and Galaxy Nexus are both two words bro. Galaxy Nexus ain’t a mouthful

Jay Sandora

What time zone is this for, Pacific? I must mark my calendar accordingly!

Then why the hell did Verizon drop the SGS2? I believe it will sell the best on Verizon when compared to other carriers. I also believe it will make it to all four major US carriers. #uselogic?

Dave

Just like the Nexus One made it to all carriers, or the Nexus S made it to all carriers? I HIGHLY doubt the Prime will make it to all carriers. I think it should be going to all carriers but looking at past Nexus’, it seems like its going to stay an exclusive to one carrier and months later be released to another and then another.

Nexus One – Tombile & unlocked AT&T version

Nexus S – Tombile, MONTHS later, Sprint and now AT&T

The Prime will hit VZ and from there is anyone’s guess.

The SG1 was a piece of shit device on Verizon and I doubt a true SGII would do well. The Prime is the exception since it will be running vanilla Android.

Anonymous

@085287177d831bebe86b4b1dd7e844fb:disqus The Prime has passed through the FCC with the tech to run on T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon and international networks O__o

Anonymous

Stop blurring the location details, it’s not a secret so don’t pretend it is:

PS Quote: “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All these things will be lost in time like tears in rain”…